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KYPRIANOS M796

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

PGM LXIX
Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 1463
P. Mich III 156
P. Mich 3 156

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (formulary)
Documentary (accounts)
Contents:

Original Use (?):

Ro: Accounts (unpublished)

Re-use:

Vo ll. 1-4: Recipe for acquiring strength
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 101 – 200
Date notes:

GEMF (11/3/2019); TM (30/8/2020).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 3.5 Width: 16.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete (?) but with significant damage to right-hand side.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column, verso (→) (magical re-use). 1 column recto (original use).
Hand:

Practiced, documentary,cursive

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Oxyrhynchus, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library
Collection History:

Acquired as part of lot obtained in November 1924 (Zellmann-Rohrer 2020: p. 49).
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Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bonner, Campbell. “Note on the Paris Magical Papyrus.” Classical Philology 25 (1939): 181-182.

Bonner, Campbell. Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection. Vol. 3. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1936, no. 156.

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2 (2nd ed). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 201, no. 69.
Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 297, no. 69.
General:

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “Notes on Magical Handbooks.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 215 (2020) 49-50.

Trismegistos ID:

63550

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

69

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 11 ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (26/3/2019); ST (30/8/2020); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (7/9/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M796," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m796. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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